Current Brews

Blueberry Pale Ale - on tap
Cider - fermenting
Fresh Hop Harvest Ale - fermenting
Hefeweizen - fermenting

coming soon:
Blackberry Pale Ale
Pale Ale Harvest

HOPS!

HOPS!

It's almost cider time!

IPA

Success!

It's been a while.

The fresh hop beers were... Interesting. It's almost that time again. In the meantime we made a Peanut Butter Porter and our Coffee Chocolate Stout this winter. We've been growing more and more hops. Our latest beer is New Putnam Pale Ale, a refreshing lager type ale. We also had our first successful East Cotati brew of One Track IPA, which is on tap now. We will be attempting some a new fresh hop ale late Summer. Stay tuned!

Tsunami Wet Hop IPA

Made from these.

It's been awhile...

2 keggle brews from Petaluma are done. Tasted good at first but really were mediocre. Then we brewed a new IPA and discovered it was very close to the original Earthquake IPA of 2006, the 100th anniversary of The 1906 SF earthquake. So now we have a new Earthquake (or Aftershock) IPA. A later version will be brewed with wet hops from our local farms. Here's a Cascade hop that was recently grown at our Petaluma farm.



We also tried a pale ale brew from a new supplier, but done our way. It will be kegged this weekend, but probably only made once (limited release). We also made some Old Man Crandall's Apple Cider, and we're awaiting pear harvest to see if we have enough for a pear cider this year.

Update

It's been a while since an update. 2 beers brewed in the new keggle, but using Petaluma "free" tap water. Not totally impressed. Tasted ok but as it aged not as great. Decided to create a new simplified recipe and modify that with fresh wet hops later this year. The first creation with dry hops is in the fermenter now. Of course - it's an IPA. Also we have 4 hops growing at the taproom now. Cider being made soon!

Word of the day: Happoshu

"Fake beer"

Fruit trees a plenty / ciders this year

The pear tree has been totally pruned back but now is starting to bloom. I doubt we will see many pears or much cider this year. There's plums, apples, peaches and apricots too. Hopefully our Petaluma hop garden will give us some better apples for this year's cider.

Re-engineering Tecova Brewing

Due to some uncharacteristically inadequate brews since the move, we've decided to work really hard to get our recipes accurate.

The first two brews to be refined are both IPAs, "Dominus Ominus" and "Hops Gone Wild" (the former Four Track IPA, a variation of One Track Ale).

I've personally refined the recipes and put them in digital form so that I can modify them as needed and keep them consistent.

I've ordered the ingredients for the first Dominus Ominus brew in about a year and a half. Rumor is that it will be brewed in Petaluma using Petaluma tap water, hopefully in one of our hop gardens for good karma.

The latest Hops Gone Wild is more complex and will be brewed later this year. Upon researching the last brew, I found many inconsistencies from the previous versions, perhaps contributing to the wild taste. We do have the rum barrel aged firkin from this batch, still available at the taproom.

Later this year we may work on completely new recipes for Haystack Landing Hefeweizen, RobotsOnFire Red Ale, and Professor Booty's Stormwater Stout.

Apple Cider!

Pear Turbo

was kegged already.

Pear Turbo

Transferred off leeds and added clarifying agents. Next time it will get racked, and kegged.

Pear Turbo

racked off leeds during a transfer tonight, and added more clarifying agents. mmmmm it tastes good, and even bubbled in the lock when it was accidentally shaken!

Oktoberfest

kegged.

Destruction!

The fresh hop ale carboy broke and the beer and hops washed all over the carpet and floor. I guess we have to wait until next year.

Pear Cider: Turbo

Added some more pear juice, yeast, and nutrients. Need to transfer it again to a third fermentation tank, and then rack before kegging.

Apple Cider: Kegged

9.10.9

Oktoberfest

transferred to secondary. 1.014